Recent content by Gamma1214

Welcome. Even though retired from tripping, your accumulated knowledge & willingness to share experiences is appreciated.

I was going to be content to just ignore the thread as a "different strokes" kinda thing but now ya got me piling on. :LOL: I know that the demographics of the site users change over time but I'm trying to spend more time in the woods not less. I'll never forget the outfitter telling me...

Cook Forest Canoe Rental, Clarington, PA today

I might feel differently a few months in but, right now, it sounds like my dream job.

What are your goals? Are you looking for a way to preserve your videos for your own use & selected sharing or are you hoping to monetize the project(s)? (or at least, have that option)

Are the shaft facings just for color variation; so that you can plane the blade & shaft center thinner and, therefore, save time on the blade, or both? Also, what thickness did you plane to / how thick are the facings? (I do solid wood paddles but I do like the color variations of the laminates)

Welcome. Always great to have folks from other areas (tripping vicariously works both ways).

Nope. I'm back in PA and back to working (all 7 days this week) but I appreciate the offer. I'll certainly need to go back someday but my next vacation will be August '26 and will include a return to NW Ontario. Let us know what turnout is like & what you think of the swamp. (I'll be...

My buddy has one of those chairs that he uses for hunting. With cowhide, if taken care of at all, that chair will probably outlast all of us. (and still look good doing it). Nicely done.

I knew water hyacinth. It's sold locally for use in koi ponds. It does not tolerate frost, however, so it'll never be invasive here. I did notice the difference in bills after I started comparing but the color difference of the legs was what alerted me. Yes, the landscape is far different...

I dunno... A kid (25ish) at work got a call recently that "needed to verify some info due to a data breach". The imbecile gave them everything: Social Security number, banking info, birthdate... everything anyone would need to clean him out or assume his identity. Granted, I've never...

I actually had better luck with the camera-shy white bird after that (I’m told they’re Egrets). I briefly wondered if a second picture of the same bird would make it a Regret but I’m a little afraid that such thoughts might draw a comparison to @CanoeDaddy's trip reports so I won’t mention...

As mentioned previously in my Allegheny Islands report, 2025 has been unusually dry in Western PA and, by mid-October, we were in desperate need of rain. I’d been working 6+ days most weeks since returning from Canada the previous July and, by mid-October, I was in desperate need of some time...

3 times, which is truly pitiful considering that one of them was a test paddle in my buddy's pond! I'll have to get back to it in '26 (I have to renew my outdoor card & Ontario fishing license too. I'm frugal enough that it will really bother me to waste money by not going :))

I haven't messed w/ GPT but I've played around a little with the free version of Grammarly just to see what changes it might suggest (I always want to write better). The tech is developing rapidly but it's not quite there yet. Many of the suggestions that it made would change the context and a...